9. How can one who takes pleasure in [acts that bring] disgrace benefit from sincere advice?!

9ـ كَيْفَ يَنْتَفِعُ بِالنَّصِيحَةِ مَنْ يَلْتَذُّ بِالفَضِيحَةِ؟!

10. One who trades with you by [giving you] advice has indeed made your profit abound.

10ـ مَنْ تاجَرَكَ بِالنُّصْحِ فَقَدْ أجْزَلَ لَكَ الرِّبْحَ.

11. One who trades with you in advice is your partner in profit.

11ـ مَنْ تاجَرَكَ فِي النُّصْحِ كانَ شَرِيكَكَ فِي الرِّبْحِ.

12. One of the best forms of advice is disclosing the ugly traits [of a person to him so that he may change].

12ـ مِنْ أحْسَنِ النَّصيحَةِ الإبانَةُ عَنِ الْقَبِيحَةِ.

13. Being sincere [in giving advice] is from the best [teachings] of religion.

13ـ مِنْ أحْسَنِ الدّينِ النُّصْحُ.

14. Pointing [people] towards reconciliation is the best advice.

14ـ مِنْ أفْضَلِ النُّصْحِ اَلإشارَةُ بِالصُّلْحِ.

15. The bitterness of sincere advice is more beneficial than the sweetness of deceit.

15ـ مَرارَةُ النُّصْحِ أنْفَعُ مِنْ حَلاوَةِ الغِـشِّ.

16. Your sincere adviser is concerned about you, shows kindness to you, considers your outcomes and rectifies of your shortcomings; so in obedience to him lies your development and in opposition to him, your corruption.

17. Your advice [when given] in front of other people is [considered] a rebuke.

17ـ نُصْحُكَ بَيْنَ الْمَلاءِ تَقْرِيعٌ.

18. Never reject the [advice of a] sincere adviser and never assume the one who counsels you to be a deceiver.

18ـ لاتَرُدَّنَّ عَلَى النَّصِيحِ ولاتَسْتَغِشَّنَّ المُشِيرَ.

19. Do not take advice from one who has lost his senses and do not trust one who has an ignoble background, for indeed the one who has lost his senses deceives while he thinks he is offering good advice, and one who has an ignoble background corrupts while he thinks he is rectifying.

24. People, accept advice from the one who advises you and receive it from the one who carries it to you with obedience, and know that Allah, the Glorified, has not praised but the most attentive of hearts to wise counsel and only those people who are quickest in responding to the truth; and know that the greater struggle is the struggle against one’s self, so occupy yourself with struggling against your selves and you will be felicitous, reject idle talk and you will be safe, increase in your remembrance of Allah and you will gain, [and] be brothers to each other, O servants of Allah, and you will be prosperous with the everlasting bounty [of Allah].

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